kwritelog

General Form:

kwritelog [-l level] message

The kwritelog utility writes a message to the system log. It provides the same functionality WRITE LOG KCML statement, but can be used in command shell scripts. This can be useful for scripts which are executed during system startup or are used to start and stop background daemons.

The optional -l level flag can be used to log the message at different severity level. These are

Level Purpose Unix level code
0 Information message LOG_INFO
1 Warning message LOG_WARNING
2 Error message LOG_ERR

If no level is specified the message will be logged at level 0. Example: 
kwritelog -l 1 "Starting background deamon ..."
# Start the daemon
/usr/app/start_daemon.ksh
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" = "0" ]
then
        kwritelog "Daemon has started"
else
        kwritelog -l 2 "Daemon failed to start, error code $rc"
fi